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WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 3 LETTERS A Letter from the Superintendent The Class of 2012 stood proud as the reviewing party took its place for the graduation parade on a partly sunny morning with a very damp Plain.
The Official West Point March rainmaker—but the guests of our Distinguished Graduates had was played stirringly by the a great meal in Washington Hall and were able to observe the USMA Band and moved the formal ceremony. thousands in the reviewing stands to strong emotions. As you are reading this, the Class of 2016 has arrived at West Point The next leadership cadre from to begin their own journey towards service as leaders of character. the Class of 2013 stepped up With 15,000 applications and an entering Class of 1150, these and marched their companies new cadets are smart, competitive, fit, and ready for the challenge past the crowd and their of Cadet Basic Training. We welcome them to USMA! The upper- “firsties.” That evening, we classmen are participating in relevant and rigorous summer military, were privileged to hear the physical, and academic individual development programs and 39th chief of staff of the US courses around the world. These include Cadet Troop Leading Army, General Ray Odierno, Training in our Army: Airborne, Air Assault, Sapper and other skill speak at the Graduation courses; as interns with U.S. Government agencies; and in language- Banquet for the Class, their families, and guests. Secretary of the based and other focused academic study around the globe. All of Army, John M. McHugh, also joined us for that special event. The those opportunities are a carefully managed and focused part of the Chief spoke about the Class’ future role as commissioned officers leader development system of USMA. And all are supervised by a and of their primary commitment to serving and leading Soldiers. highly experienced and professional officer and civilian cadre on our The following morning, a blazing sun bore down on thousands staff and faculty. more gathered at Michie Stadium for the commencement and We ask all graduates to consider helping us with our major new commissioning of the Class of 2012. Vice President Joe Biden spoke strategic communications project—the USMA Visitors Center. of the nation’s great regard for the history and the sacrifice of the We will begin construction of this state of the art gateway to our United States Military Academy. He saluted the certain promise of Academy as soon as additional funding is allocated. It is essential our newest graduates and then took the time to shake every hand as that we tell the compelling story of West Point to the nation in the they received their diplomas. That afternoon, there were hundreds of very best manner through exhibits of a very high standard, those that individual and small group “pinning” ceremonies, from the Patton match the brilliant past and future of West Point. The Visitor statue to Trophy Point, as family members and officer mentors placed Center—the first major reference point for the million visitors we the gold bars of a 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Army on the latest additions to host each year—will make a much needed impact and will highlight the Long Gray Line. Not forgotten in the pageantry of the final two the accomplishments of all our alumni. Thanks for your support! days of this year’s graduation week was the unheralded, collective commitment and competence of a first tier staff and faculty who Finally, thanks for what you do as our graduates each and every day taught, coached, and mentored these cadets for their future military for the United States Military Academy. In my travels throughout the service. We wish the very best to the Class of 2012. They will United States for this year’s Founders Day events and in the privilege professionally and confidently serve their Army and the nation of addressing many reunion classes this year, I have seen the through their values-based leadership. passion, the commitment, the allegiance, and the accomplishment of our graduates. Your support is steadfast, very much appreciated, and Earlier in the week, we were proud to host five reunion classes from an inspiration for the Corps of Cadets. In your dedication to the 1942, 1947, 1952, 1957, and 1962. Their spirit, pride, energy, and values of West Point, they see the bright promise of their own lives. their large presence were felt throughout the post. We were also honored to celebrate the induction of five new Distinguished Army Strong! Graduates: LTG Henry Hatch, Class of 1957; General Butch Saint, Class of 1958, Major William Willoughby, Class of 1960; General David H. Huntoon Jr. ’73 Narcisco Abaya (Philippines), Class of 1971; and LTG William Lennox, Lieutenant General, U.S. Army Class of 1971. The Alumni review and wreath ceremony was 58th Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy canceled—possibly by cadets chanting successfully to Odin the
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The DMI staff knows this is one Academy, DSS can be thought of as the graduate program to DMI’s class where nobody catches any Zs. Core Military Science Program (MX). Lieutenant Colonel Brian De Toy has headed DSS since its inception and adeptly describes its difference from the traditional MX: “There’s one big difference between our DSS major and MX courses; they are all based in current Army doctrine, but a lot of what we do in DSS is not based in doctrine (which changes), it’s based in theory (which can be seen as timeless).” The DSS major requires three courses: DS310: Tactics, DS470: Strategy, and DS498: Colloquium in Military Affairs (capstone projects done by large teams). Cadets can also draw upon the following DSS courses to fulfill their major requirements: 345: Military Innovation, 350: Military Communication, 360: Special Ops/Low Intensity Conflict, 385: Sustaining the Force, 455: Comparative Military Systems, and 460: Counterinsurgency. Each DSS course provides food-for-thought for military thinkers. For example, a stated learning objective for DS310: Tactics, which is taught by Major James Beaulieu, is to “demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of war with emphasis on the strategic effect of tactical action.” A prime measure of a student’s proficiency is the four-hour exercise in DMI’s West Point Simulation Center. Although The West Point Simulation Center, equipped with 40 computer workstations and 12 call-for-fire trainers, hosting a combat exercise. Center Director Major Dan Kidd (standing), provides tactical support for the the exercise takes place in Washington Hall, the interactive war- OPFOR cell who are role playing as insurgents. gaming program VBS-2 can place its participants anywhere in the world within minutes. The cadet platoon assumes virtual reality roles DS470: Military Strategy, taught by Major Jonathan Fursman, takes as members of 1/A/1-504 PIR, operating out of COP SABER in the cadets through three focus areas—strategic art, strategic theory, and Wazir neighborhood of Baghdad. Throughout their coursework, U.S. strategic systems and planning. As the cadets proceed through cadets are exposed to the concept that tactical actions can have their first 30 lessons, they explore the evolution of warfare. During strategic impact: the death of civilians is akin to friendly-fire their four lessons on the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and casualties. First platoon’s cadet leader briefs his non-coms, “I want Athens, they tackle questions like, “Is your strategic approach to you to dismount, position your guys in this building. You’re going to exploit your enemy’s weaknesses or to improve your weaknesses and set up a support-by-fire position aimed at that building where Iraqi defeat the enemy’s strength?” As in the early days of the U.S. Military Police spotted a high-value individual and his five-man security Academy, the theories of Sun Tzu (500 B.C.) and 19th century team. Second squad is going to cover all of this area right here. military authors Antoine Henri Jomini and Karl Von Clausewitz are Friendly-fire is the biggest consideration. Once weapon squad is in still studied. Their thinking has directly influenced the principles of position, I’ll be walking around, telling you what you need to do— war, which are concerned with the concepts defining “objective, what you can’t do.” offensive, mass, economy of forces, maneuver, center of gravity, units of command, security, surprise, and simplicity.” Germany’s flawed Beaulieu must have had Robert Burns’ “the best laid plans of mice WWI “Schlieffen Plan,” modern air power theory, maritime theory, and men often go awry” in mind as he presents the platoon with Previous Page: Simulation Center Manager Vic Castro makes a final system check prior to a four-hour tactical exercise that places cadets within Baghdad. A virtual representation of the Green Zone is on the display at left. WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 7 and the National Security Council policy formation process are also The Impact addressed. Fursman equips his students with provocative observations like, “Looking back over the history of successful strategic decision- “Having cadets pursue the Defense and Strategic Studies (DSS) making, you can see that the inability to understand certain basic major appears very valuable to the Army,” says Colonel Walter principles and adhere to them were the cause of failure.” On the flip- Rugen ’89, Military Fellow with the Center for Strategic and side, he follows with the lesson, “But it is essential to learn about the International Studies. “Developing leaders who are adaptable commanders who realized, ‘in this particular case, what I learned is not and can think and act strategically is critically important for the going to work and I have to do this instead.’” A central theme of this future of our Army and nation.” course is that the U.S. Army understands how to achieve operational Major Ryan Wylie ’98, Executive Officer of the 1st Battalion, success. Fursman reminds his students: 325 Airborne Infantry Regiment, who has served with four DSS graduates in the last 18 months in the 82nd Airborne Division, “We have a lot of capabilities and we know how to says: “DSS majors have a context for understanding the tactical apply them. In certain situations, you’re going to and professional challenges they face, derived in large part from do ‘this and this.’ But at the strategic level, in their unique coursework that blends historic, strategic, and comparative perspectives.” When asked about the impact of the relation to the conflicts we find ourselves in now, DSS major in the field, Wylie brought up the case of Captain you really have to think hard about how to develop Victor Basher ’08, who received his degree when DSS was still a military objective which can match your political called the Military Arts & Sciences (MA&S) major. “Basher was put to work in Iraq as a member of a training team assigned to objective. The most important questions are often the Anbar Police Directorate leadership,” Wylie says. “Basher not, ‘what approach do we take?’ but rather, ‘are was uniquely prepared for this position in part because he was a we choosing the right objective?’ The Army does former DSS major and had studied about training foreign armies and the lessons of U.S. trainers in Iraq who had come before a great job engaging an enemy, but the question him; and most importantly, through the entirety of his DSS is ‘does that actually move us towards our coursework, he learned to synthesize the cultural, military, political objectives?’ Ask, ‘are we choosing the social, and political factors at work in Iraq and to make sense of the complex environment in which he operated.” right objectives?’ instead of, ‘how do I accomplish the objective?’” Captain Adam Suter ’08, who is currently serving as the Operations Officer for a joint Army/Air Force/U.S. State Dept. From Fursman’s lesson, it is obvious that DSS is encouraging cadets to Provincial Reconstruction Team in Eastern Afghanistan and become problem solvers—first by understanding what the problems served as a Company Fire Support Officer with the 2nd Battalion, are, then by developing solutions that can be effective. While there is no 14th Infantry in Iraq in 2009, graduated just as MA&S was expectation that DS470 students will graduate and immediately serve transitioning to DSS, but took the tactics, special ops/low as a four-star’s right-arm strategist, DSS sees itself as part of an overall intensity conflict, and counterinsurgency courses found in foundational approach. As these strategy students go forward through today’s curriculum. “Knowing and understanding how to think tactical and operational levels in their careers, they will have a way of about the counterinsurgency environment allowed me to better thinking that allows them to understand strategic implications and see grasp the complexities of the political and social environment of their experiences through a strategic lens. One lesson that helps cadets Iraq while serving there during its transition,” Suter reports. leap forward two decades on this foundational approach is the Commenting on DSS’s contribution to the Army, he says, “The “Strategic Planning Exercise (SPE) for the Secretary of Defense,” which DSS major enables junior leaders to better incorporate strategic- is described as follows: “The SPE is a plausible, but artificial West and operational-level planning into tactical decisions at the African scenario designed to assess students’ ability to translate strategic company and platoon level. In my current assignment, working concepts into strategic solutions and to effectively communicate those with a multi-national force, tactical decisions made at my level conclusions to a strategic decision maker.” In this exercise, student can have direct consequences on the operational and strategic groups use an abbreviated campaign-planning process to demonstrate outcomes of the region.” their capacity for connecting military objectives to political objectives in a contemporary strategic environment. The cadet operating groups First Lieutenant Paul Kearney ’09, Executive Officer of the need to provide both mission analysis and course-of-action briefings, 1st Squadron, 71st Calvary Regiment, who studied irregular and their plans can draw upon three divisions (two Army, one Marine) warfare as a DSS major, says, “All of the courses dealt with the with multiple line and support brigades, including two aviation history and theory of unconventional/irregular warfare and gave brigades. They are handed a 64-page briefing book and directed to use me the specialized knowledge I needed when I found myself as a the library, web resources, and their “thinking caps” to answer: where, platoon leader in a remote outpost away from headquarters when, what, how, and why? 8 WestPointAOG.org In DS455: Comparative Military Systems, Major Jonathan Davis shortly after graduating from my Basic Officer Leadership Course leads his students through an examination of NATO, Russian, (BOLC) training.” Speaking about his Colloquium in Military Chinese, Israeli, and U.S. national security systems. Like many West Affairs (DS498) course, Kearney says, “The course was Point instructors, Davis calls on his own wartime experience to invaluable; it was a last check that allowed us to reflect back on reinforce theory with practice, creating a more holistic presentation. our formation as officers and really become aware of where we As a second lieutenant, Davis started reading Carl von Clausewitz as were coming from and where we were going in our profession part of a graduate school course he took on his own. After taking this of arms.” course, Clausewitz’s “Principles of War” were rattling around in his First Lieutenant Nate Custer ’10 believes that DSS cadets mind. By the time he became a company commander, Davis had a benefit from more thorough analysis and discussion of military fairly workable understanding of how Clausewitz would look in strategy. Reflecting on his tactics class, Custer says, “The tactics practice, which enabled him to quickly identify the Clausewitzian class gave me a far greater amount of information than my core aspects of his problem in Baghdad and design operations to bring military science classes about mission planning, and I credit the about the desired end result. He teaches his students about the lessons in DS310 with putting me ahead of my peers during Clausewitz “trinity” (between the government, the security forces, platoon planning exercises in BOLC.” He continues, “DSS and the population; all of which must be kept in equilibrium if a war graduates have a working knowledge that I believe will give is to be waged to a successful conclusion) and demonstrates how it them greater situational awareness and a higher comfort level applied to his duties in Iraq. “In Iraq, we had the intersection of two than their peers when they assume roles with operational or trinities: the Iraqi government and the Iraqi security forces strategic control. In the current operational environment, small- connecting to the Iraqi population, and on the other side you had the unit actions carry a higher strategic weight than in any prior shadow governments of various insurgencies and their military forces conflict, and decisions at even the individual or team level can have theater-wide and even global impacts.” A BLUE Force Squad Leader supervises the placement of key interactive weapon systems in preparation for offensive maneuvers. Computer programs can transport cadets worldwide in minutes, placing a broad arsenal of military resources at their disposal. Photo: Ted Spiegel Ted Photo: WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 9 also connected to the Iraqi population,” Davis says. “In our small “It may sound trite but it’s important to not be caught only in the locality, we secured the population largely because the Iraqi security here and now. Sometimes as a very senior leader you’ve got to get forces and the Iraqi government at the time were incapable of doing focused like a laser on the absolute here and now, but you’ve also got so.” Davis also teaches how strategic objectives are accomplished by to have the context for what’s happening—like what’s happening in tactical performance. His lesson boils down to, “If you secure the Afghanistan today needs to be seen as part of the larger dimension, as population, then they will become more confident in their part of American action in the Middle East and Central Asia. It can’t perceptions of security and will be more agreeable to feed you just be seen as getting the Afghans ready to take over their fight for information to help defeat the insurgency as well as help the local themselves right now. Is that necessary? Yes, that’s great, but if that’s security forces.” And Davis has evidence to support his lesson. “We all we’re doing, that’s like the vision of a shooting range where you’re went from a contested area in Iraq,” he says to his students, “to one always shooting at the 50-meter target or the enemy who’s closest to where the trinity had clearly become stable in favor of the Iraqi you. If you’re always shooting the enemy right in front of you, you’re government, and the trinity that the insurgency had depended on to not shooting deep. You’re not shooting the 350-meter target, the survive had collapsed.” In his opinion, this is how DSS takes military 400-meter target. That’s where you’re going to change the battlefield. professionalism up a notch. If you’re always going to let them get right up on you and you just hit the guy in front, then you’re never going to change the battlefield. De Toy expresses the overall DSS objective simply: “We’re hoping to Play that out with the Taliban— you can’t shoot your way out of provide the Army with an inquisitive young officer who understands these wars. You’ve got to think—what are the underlying causes? the bigger picture and their part in it, open to their experiences and What are the underlying feelings and thoughts of the people on both education along the way, so that by the time they’re at War College sides, and how can we help them find the solutions within they can take on strategic responsibilities; and those responsibilities themselves?” are coming sooner and sooner.” When asked how he defines “thinking strategically,” De Toy offers insights which permeate the Ted Spiegel is a long-time contributing writer for various WPAOG program he has shaped over the last five years. publications and formerly worked for West Point Admissions. 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COMPLIMENTARY OVERNIGHT STAYS AVAILABLE 1.800.326.0419 2600 Estates Drive / Fairfi eld, California 94533 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’S ONLY CONTINUING CARE www.pvestates.com RETIREMENT COMMUNITY FOUNDED BY MILITARY OFFICERS WEST POINT RCFE| SUMMER #486800368 2012 LIC #133811 COA #179 PVE_wine_WPM-full.indd 1 5/11/12 5:13 PM Q&A The Leaders’ Leader: LTC Brian De Toy By Keith J. Hamel, WPAOG staff In the summer of 2006, when the hiring committee was looking for a director to oversee the nascent Military Arts & Sciences (MA&S) major, which had only been in existence since 2004, they knew they wanted a leader. Upon hiring Lieutenant Colonel Brian De Toy, they got an individual with 21 years of Army experience, seven of which involved officer development (as the head of the ROTC program at the University of Kansas and two tours with the History Department at West Point); more important, they found a director who lives his lessons. Like the subjects in his case studies (e.g., Emory Upton, Class of May 1861, who employed unconventional tactics to break the Confederate line at the Spotsylvania Court House in 1864), De Toy believes in taking risks to develop something new. His new development came in 2009, and it is called the Defense and Strategic Studies (DSS) major. Q: How did you transform MA&S into DSS? A: One of the things that I think I brought to the table during the interview process is that I looked at the program and saw that MA&S was a diamond in the rough, capable of being more than a major for combat infantry, which was kind of the rap at the time. When I looked at the courses, I thought to myself, “This looks like a graduate school program in security or strategic studies,” and I went into the interview process with this vision of retooling or reshaping the major to fit that kind of curriculum. I think this caught the eye of the hiring committee. After I was hired, I approached the five MA&S instructors and two others who were coming on board, explained my vision to them, and asked, “What do you think?” They all agreed immediately saying, “You are right, that’s what this program can be.” Then we started benchmarking against grad schools across the country and in Canada and Britain and put together a curricular change that we submitted in the spring of 2008. By the start of May 2009, everything was approved. We transitioned from the multiple tracks of MA&S (such as campaign and counter-insurgency) to one single path for DSS. The cadets still have options, but we have a solid base of three courses for our core, the three either/or option courses, and the two electives. arl/WPAOG staff Photo: Marissa C 12 WestPointAOG.org The Leaders’ Leader: LTC Brian De Toy Q: What philosophy guided this change? with it. Our grads are going to be faced with challenges that we don’t even know about yet, but if they understand that A: As I was preparing for my interview, I came across a study done others have faced this before by being open and flexible, then by the Army War College on behalf of General Eric Shinseki ’65. they can develop the solutions themselves. And so the “why” He had tasked the War College soon after 9/11 to examine the is much more critical than the prescription found in doctrine. ways in which the Army creates strategic leaders. He thought We definitely support what General Dempsey is looking to do that we weren’t doing as well as we should. In 2003, they came to develop strategic leaders and thinkers, and tactical and back with a four-point report: one of which is that we can’t wait operational command—that’s what we do in the classroom— until officers get to War College at the 20-year mark to teach however, I don’t look at Army doctrine to develop goals for strategy. It was explicitly stated that we need to start at the the major. I look more at West Point’s goals for creating leaders undergraduate level. West Point does this in a number of ways, and ask how we can support that. Going back to Shinseki, we but DSS does it in a holistic way with all of the courses in this need to do a better job exposing cadets to strategic thought at major focused on this goal. Part of the charter I gave myself an earlier time. Granted, they are not leaving here as 22-year-old when I was hired is to do our part to achieve the strategists, but with these concepts in mind—as they move chief of staff’s vision. further through Army education at the schoolhouse, in addition Q: How does the structure of the DSS major fit into General to all of their experience in units—by the time they are majors Martin Dempsey’s “Leader Development Strategy for a 21st or lieutenant colonels, it will all resonate with them and make Century Army,” and other Army leadership doctrine? sense. They will be able to accumulate and grasp this information more readily than others who have never heard A: Some of our supplemental course readings are Army manuals, about or thought about these concepts. but DSS is not trying to replace the Army’s education system. A field manual is a guide detailing how to do something. For Q: What feedback are you hearing from DSS graduates down intellectual rigor, DSS has gone up a level and is reaching range? beyond Army writers at Fort Leavenworth. For DSS, the “why” A: I hear very, very positive comments from our majors out there in of doctrine is more important that the “how” or “what.” The the Army. They report that several DSS courses have had a direct doctrine will change; the manuals are written all the time. For impact on their current assignments. Because of the nature of this reason, our tactics course doesn’t teach prescriptive tactics, the type of fight we’ve been in, most students report on the but rather it teaches how these things came about; how soldiers usefulness of the COIN (counterinsurgency) course. who were faced with challenges developed something to deal Tactics has been another big one about which I’ve heard great feedback. Lastly, the capstone, which has evolved over time, has challenged them and helped them understand how an officer intellectually prepares for war. For example, the Gettysburg Staff Ride, studying a historical battle, has had a tremendous influence on many of them. They appreciate that so many of these lessons, especially those on leadership, are timeless. And given that they are at the rubber-meets-the-road practical level of leadership, they get it. But overall the major, as all majors should do, supports their own inclinations and interests. This major reinforces the students̓ natural interests in the Army and challenges them to be better soldiers. LTC Brian De Toy addresses students in his DSS498: Colloquium in Military Affairs Photo: Ted Spiegel Ted Photo: course in front of Thayer Monument. WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 13 Building Skills and Living Leadership: “The design of the West Point Cadet Basic Training (CBT) Experience flows from the premise The means to competence and character begins with Cadet Basic that commissioned officers lead most Training (CBT), traditionally called “Beast Barracks.” Comprised of two sections, this six-week program is charged with transforming the effectively when they possess both 1,200 or so young citizens entering the United States Military Academy at West Point from civilians to fourth-class cadets. The first competence and good character.” three weeks of CBT cover academic issues and military training. Academically, CBT-1 tackles placement testing, in-process screening, –West Point: Information for equipment acquisition, and introductory Army-themed lessons (such New Cadets and Parents, Class of 2013 catalog as how to march and drill, as well as knowledge of Army structure and basic operations). On the military training side, CBT-1 starts with marksmanship since, as Lieutenant Colonel John Grantz, the Chief of Military Training in the Department of Military Instruction, says, “Handling a weapon is one of the most fundamental soldiering skills.” The new cadets spend five days training on the M-4 rifle (including proper loading, targeting, firing positions, and weapon care) before being deemed weapon-qualified. At the end of the first three weeks, a squad challenge tests how well the new cadets have mastered Above: Fire Team Live-Fire Training, one part of Cadet Basic Training, requires new cadets marksmanship, as well as physical and communication training. They arl/WPAOG staff to advance through the course in squads while taking out pop-up targets. Opposite page: Usually during their last summer, cadets participate in Cadet Leader Development may not realize it at this point, but these new cadets are slowly and Training, which consists of five-day modules that simulate deployment scenarios. surely gaining the skills and developing the values (such as teamwork, Photo: Marissa C 14 WestPointAOG.org Building Skills and Living Leadership: Summer Training at the Academy By Keith J. Hamel, WPAOG staff self-confidence, and honor) that will carry them through their time push-ups, sit-ups, and a two-mile run, which the new cadets need at West Point and beyond. Major Andrew Knight, the Field Artillery to pass lest they be required to wake at 5am during the school year to Branch Representative in the Department of Military Instruction, train with a team leader. Finally, they need to endure the ceremonial says they are also forming bonds that will last a lifetime. “The CBT March Back, a 12-mile trek that begins in the wee hours of the socialization process is unique,” Knight says. “New cadets are morning at Camp Buckner and ends sometime after high noon at immediately cast into situations where they must rely on each Washington Hall. The event is ceremonial because past West Point other to accomplish their tasks, and it is a safe bet that every cadet graduates will march with the soon-to-be plebes to show their that completes CBT will remember those who helped him or support and acknowledge, as Grantz calls it, “this rite of passage, her through.” which signals that they are now more cadet-soldier than civilian.” After New Cadet Visitation Day (formerly the Ice Cream Social), CBT-2, which is 100-percent military training, begins. In this second three-week section, the new cadets complete combat casualty Cadet Field Training (CFT) care, rappelling, land navigation, fire team live-fire, and the The values of teamwork, trust, and discipline instilled via the notorious chemical-biological-radiological training (a.k.a. donning physical and mental challenges of Beast Barracks continue as then removing a gas mask in the House of Tears). Training the rising second-year cadets undergo Cadet Field Training culminates in the Neel Challenge (named after First Lieutenant (CFT). Once facetiously hailed as “the best summer of your life Phillip Neel ’05, who was killed while serving in Iraq), a 12-hour, at the Academy” (an honor that some say now belongs to Cadet station-oriented squad challenge designed to tap all the skills Leader Development Training), CFT ups the ante of CBT with accumulated during CBT. But before officially becoming fourth- arl/WPAOG staff more training on more equipment. Twenty-eight days in length, class cadets, the new cadets must pass two more challenges. First, CFT trains cadets in urban operations (using live-fire), fire there is the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT), a combination of support, patrolling, and reconnaissance. CFT also refreshes their Photo: Marissa C WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 15 Building Skills and Living Leadership: Summer Training at the Academy The Neel Challenge, which memorializes 1LT Phillip Isaac Neel ’05, who died in Iraq in 2007, challenges new cadets at a variety of stations, including Soldier First Responder and marksmanship. skills in combat medicine, land navigation, and communications. specialized detail), opting for a Military Individual Advanced Equipment-wise, cadets are training on the M-119 Howitzer and its Development program (18 specialized courses such as Air Assault or 105mm rounds, Bangalore torpedoes, the M-240 machine gun, and USAF Combat Survival Training), or participating in Cadet Troop the M-249 light machine gun. Mandatory physical components Leader Training (CTLT). include the water obstacle course and the confidence obstacle course. Offered in three iterations, each lasting for approximately 24 days, CFT reaches its apex in the Camp Buckner field exercise. Labeled CTLT is designed to be one of the most important leadership a “80-to-96 hour gut-check” by Grantz, Buckner has cadets experiences cadets receive before being commissioned. “It is performing squad and platoon-level tactical operations for their leadership 24/7,” says Captain Amaka Auer, the Chief of Cadet first time ever at West Point (all tactical, no administrative time). Advanced Training in the Leadership Development Branch. The cadets are judged for how well they perform their field craft Although they will be shadowing first lieutenants who mentor them and for how well they work as a team (tactical problem solving), during the three-plus weeks, CTLT cadets are virtually responsible and since they do not get a lot of sleep or a lot of food, this exercise for leading an active duty Army unit that is performing training or really puts them to the test. operational missions outside of combat and contingency theaters. Auer notes that the CTLT program aims to broaden a cadet’s experience on several fronts. Most practically, she says, “CTLT is a Cadet Troop Leader Training (CTLT) great opportunity for cadets to see a branch that they were thinking they may want to enter in the future, and it may ultimately determine While Beast and Buckner teach cadets about leadership skills, cadet whether or not they opt for that branch later.” With over 1,000 advanced training provides the opportunity to actually demonstrate CTLT slots available, cadets are likely to receive an assignment that those skills in a variety of ways. Rising cows may fulfill their summer matches their branch preference. But regardless of branch, another training requirement and live leadership by either serving a West goal of CTLT is to assign cadets to positions where they will have arl/WPAOG staff Point Detail (as a chain of command member at CBT, CFT, Cadet frequent contact with soldiers and noncommissioned officers. Candidates Basic Training, the Summer Leadership Seminar, or a Photo: Marissa C 16 WestPointAOG.org Building Skills and Living Leadership: Summer Training at the Academy “It’s a great experience to lead soldiers,” says Cadet Stephan Murphy For 17 days, CLDT cadets live in what Grantz calls the “gray area” ’13, who served as the acting platoon leader during basic training at as they complete a series of five-day training modules that places Fort Jackson, SC. “Interacting with them gave me a different insight them in scenarios similar to what they might see on deployment. into Army life than what is taught at West Point.” This summer, Dari and Pashto-speaking role players will act as Afghan villagers who may or may not be hiding insurgents. Every Kyle Lamb ’12 agrees: “At West Point, nobody has wives or sick kids module-scenario is different, and each time the cadets are charged or financial problems. You have to be involved with your soldiers, with unraveling the story. “They are trying to solve problems for especially if that stuff is affecting their performance.” which there may not be a right answer, or there may be several right Cadet Daniel Nevins ’13, who completed his CTLT at Camp Arifjan answers, or maybe the right answer is selecting the least bad way,” in Kuwait, puts it another way: “At West Point, we work with peer says Grantz. “It is all about seeing what sort of judgment the cadets leadership: you lead cadets who are the same age, rank, and status. have gained via their training and coursework at West Point, because Here you actually lead subordinates who entrust their lives to you.” we need to prepare them for the ethical quandaries they will encounter as second lieutenants.” CLDT uses officers and noncommissioned officers who are coming Cadet Leader Development straight from deployments that dealt with these situations to train the cadets. After each module, the trainers complete a “leader Training (CLDT) assessment” on the cadets which takes into account elements such as If they have attended CTLT in their cow summer, rising firsties their clarity of thought, their performance under stress, and their get another opportunity to live leadership during Cadet Leader ability to communicate effectively. Sergeant First Class Rhett Development Training (CLDT). While CTLT has cadets leading Massey, who worked on last summer’s CLDT Task Force, says, “The an active Army unit in a non-combat setting, CLDT allows cadets cadets are trained well enough that we can evaluate their leadership to experience leadership challenges in a simulated, yet realistic and not their tactical ability, and I had a lot of cadets who I felt were engagement scenario. “It’s tactical problem-solving in a field just about ready to be lieutenants—I came away very impressed.” environment and leadership under stress,” says Grantz. This stress Throughout the entire CLDT experience, the trainers are trying to is supplied by the typical physical demands of field missions; but, inspire and build leaders of character. “This is what motivates all of even more so, the stress comes from the mentally taxing moral us,” says Grantz. “I am continually asking, ‘What’s the most dilemmas the cadets encounter. important element required to prepare these cadets to be officers in the future?’ and the answer is ‘leadership.’ Leadership is very personal “At West Point, we work with to all of us because we’ve seen it and lived it.” peer leadership: you lead cadets who are the same age, rank, and status. Here you actually lead subordinates who entrust their lives to you.” –Cadet Daniel Nevins ’13 CBT CLDT During the Combat Engineering portion of Cadet Field Training, cadets learn different methods of breaching and entering buildings, one of which requires cadets to open a door Scan these codes for video or go to youtube.com/WPAOG with a hand-held battering ram. Photo: Mike Strasser/USMA PAO WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 17 start the days Upcoming events suggested by West Point staff & faculty. August 12-13 Events for November-January should be sent to [email protected] by August 15, 2012. Grad March Back For the whole calendar, go to WestPointAOG.org/calendar. with Class of 2016 Class of 1967 Open only to West Point graduates! West Point Alumni 24 Visit usma.edu/daa for details. Leaders Conference The Class of 2013 receives August their West Point rings, ugust 16-18 kicking off Ring Weekend. A acceptance Day | AUGUST 18 The Class of 2016 is formally accepted into the Corps of Cadets. West Point Band hosts the annual SEPTEMBER 2 | 1812 Overture concert at Trophy Point. September 12: 7th ANNUAL West Point Society 8 Alexander R. Nininger Award presentation ® Fall Tailgates Kickoff the football season at the OCTOBER 2-4: 13th ANNUAL Army-San Diego State pre-game Diversity Leadership Conference tailgate on September 8! OCTOBER 11-13: Hosted by the West Point Society of San Diego. Homecoming Visit WestPointAOG.org for details on the eptember entire tailgating season! Weekend S OCTOBER 18: 55th Honorable “Ike” annual Sylvanus Thayer Skelton is receiving Award presentation the honor this year. reunions September 13-15 Class of 1972 September 15 September 27-29 Class of 1987 arl/WPAOG staff, WPAOG archives October 11-13 Classes of 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007 First Army home football game at Michie October 25-27 Classes of 1977, 1982 Stadium. Go Army! Beat Northern Illinois! Photos: Marissa C 18 WestPointAOG.org TOday's CADETS: a Sdayection in th : eT itlifele WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 19 International SUMMER Military Training Abroad By Keith J. Hamel, WPAOG staff Seth Johnson ʼ12, Christian Bellavia ʼ12, CMDR Roar Espevik, MAJ Thomas Lampersberger, JimSmith Photos: 20 WestPointAOG.org International Summer: Military Training Abroad It may sound like a summer vacation, a few weeks away from West Point living in and seeing the sights of a foreign country; but in actuality it is really work—hard work since it involves intense training with a military force. Yet, perhaps the hardest part for cadets actually occurs before this summer program even begins; that is, selecting which foreign Academic Individual Advanced Development (AIAD) program to attend. his summer, between late May and early August, an estimated “Mentally challenging” is the key phrase. Cognitively, Hughes 440 cadets will be traveling to various parts of the globe notes that the lack of food and sleep, along with his team’s complex (includingT Brazil, Djibouti, South Korea, and Tel Aviv) to spend two mission assignments, taxed his ability to think through problems. to four weeks participating in the language and cultural immersion He also points out that there were lots of simulated scenarios— division of the AIAD program. The United States Military Academy ones that Matthews says, “West Point wouldn’t be able to simulate also offers research-based AIADs (cadets working at national with our cadets as a rule”—that tried to break down teamwork by laboratories, for example), academic study AIADs (e.g., Corps of forcing members to solve harrowing moral and ethical dilemmas. Engineers projects), and leadership or service AIADs (such as Roar Espevik, the RNNA Commander, reports, “The intention Habitat for Humanity), but no matter which module the cadets of this exercise is to enhance initiative, independence, creativity, select, Brent Matthews, Director of the International Intellectual and flexibility when facing complexity and chaos.” He continues, Development Division in the Office of the Dean, notes that the “We have a strong focus on enhancing a true self-awareness and intent of each one of the 1,050 or so AIADs is to provide cadets with understanding in each cadet (reactions, ability to cooperate, out-of-classroom experiences to enhance and expand what they learn strengths and weaknesses), and this exercise is an ongoing fight at the Academy by either directly augmenting coursework or by to keep situational awareness and shared mental models within adding to the wide knowledge-base expected of junior Army officers. the team.” Norway ne of the foreign AIADs that fulfills both of these objectives is the “Stress, Personality, and Leader Performance” program. OThis AIAD, which has been offered through the Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership (BS&L) since May 2002, sends at least one cadet to the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (RNNA) in Bergen, Norway, to train with a nine-member squad. Dr. Mike Matthews, Professor of Engineering Psychology with BS&L, who used his professional connections with Dr. Jarle Eid at RNNA to start this program, summarizes this AIAD as a miniature Ranger school that engages cadets on the physical, cognitive, and moral levels. Translating Matthews’ soft recruitment pitch, this AIAD is actually a grueling 10-day exercise with little sleep (cadets are authorized only three hours during the exercise), little food (they are allowed to kill and eat one chicken), and great physical challenges (they carry an 80-pound pack for hours). Caleb Hughes ’12, who spent two years in the 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment before coming to the Academy, says that he found the Norwegian training to be extremely hard and mentally challenging. Michelle Kracht ’03, Dr. Mike Matthews, Jennie Hattman ’03, who attended the inaugural RNNA AIAD, and Dr. Jarle Eid of RNNA ourtesy of RNNA Photos: C WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 21 International Summer: Military Training Abroad Matthews and others involved with this program have used the At the same time they are learning about themselves, the cadets also Norwegian military exercises as the foundation for their research. are learning what it is like to work with a NATO ally. Although all In fact, for the West Point cadets, the last week of this AIAD is the training is conducted in English, Hughes notes that the devoted to the management of empirical data collected during the Norwegians’ vocabulary was somewhat limited, forcing him to exercise (BS&L only offers this AIAD to cadets majoring in choose his words carefully. “Working over there greatly increased my engineering psychology). “This is a great place to collect data on confidence toward interacting with foreign cultures,” he says. “I human performance under extreme stress,” says Matthews, “and it is know that in the future those experiences will serve me well as I easier for us to get clearance to study Norwegian soldiers in high- continue to work alongside other armies as an American soldier.” tempo operational settings than it is to study Rangers in the U.S. Matthews concurs that the cultural aspect of the AIAD is crucially Army.” Matthews is ultimately sensitive to the cadets’ well-being and important: “The cadets are enlightened when they start to compare their development as leaders, however. He always forewarns them the U.S. Army world-view with that of our allies.” There are about the extreme nature of the scenarios they might see and wants differences (Norwegian cadets address officers by their first names them to recognize the things they reflexively learned about and theirs is a unionized force), but West Point cadets are quickly themselves during the exercise. “After every incident, the trainers able to immerse with the Norwegian culture due to a shared warriors will have a discussion with the cadets about their unconscious issues ethos. Espevik acknowledges: “The U.S. cadets fit right into our with leadership,” says Matthews. “We want them to learn what fear is concept with practically no preparations. They are excellent like, how fear evolves, how their response to stress changes as a ambassadors for West Point and the U.S. Army.” function of sleep deprivation, and how it all relates back to class material on the responses of the brain and endocrine system to Austria increased stress and physical workload.” Espevik says that he has ultural immersion is such an important part of the next AIAD received very positive feedback from West Point cadets who that it is included in the program’s title: “Cultural Immersion in acknowledge this goal from the exercise. CAustria at Theresian Military Academy” (TherMilAk). In this AIAD, which is new this summer but based on the Austrian semester abroad program offered through the Department of Foreign Languages (DFL), four cadets participate in concentrated language “The U.S. cadets fit right into our concept courses at the world’s oldest military academy (founded in 1752) with practically no preparations. They are located in Weiner-Neustadt, Austria. According to Major Thomas Lampersberger, an Austrian officer who graduated from TherMilAk excellent ambassadors for West Point and in 1992, the cadets spend at least eight hours per week improving the U.S. Army.” their German-language skills. “We want them to lose their fear of –Roar Espevik, RNNA Commander using the German language; lose their fear of making mistakes while speaking,” says Lampersberger. “The only thing that really counts is, can they be understood or not?” Two of the four cadets attending this AIAD also train in military field exercises, although what exercises they do are not readily defined. According to Major Jordan Francis ’00, the German Desk Chief and Instructor of German with DFL, because TherMilAk is so much smaller than West Point (about 100 cadets per class year), their training plan is more flexible and is ultimately determined by the goals of and current resources available to their training team. Still, Lampersberger envisions the cadets performing some type of live-fire exercise with Austrian infantry weapons (pistol, assault rifle, and machine gun) and possibly with an anti-tank weapon. The other two cadets participate in military horseback riding courses, which are mandatory for Austrian cadets. The riding instructor is Major Roland Pulsinger, who Seth Johnson ’12, a graduate of the fall 2010 semester abroad program, labels, “one of the premier horsemen of the region.” The two West Point cadets are already experienced riders and current members of the Equestrian Team, but their skills will be pushed to the TherMilAkampersberger, limit as they train for the International Military Riding competition. Some of the advanced lessons in the horse TherMilAk Riding Program Photo: MAJ L Thomas Photo: 22 WestPointAOG.org International Summer: Military Training Abroad riding curricula include riding without stirrups and trotting and galloping in formation. These cadets will also partake in a live-fire exercise. Lampersberger states that all four cadets will have opportunities for cultural immersion to complement their newly acquired language skills. “To understand someone from abroad, you need to know their language as well as knowledge of their culture, history, and traditions,” he says. “This is why we integrate historical sites (monasteries and castles), cultural tours (a boat ride on the Danube River with an engineering battalion), and typical Austrian traditions (harvesting grapes for wine) into this program.” According to Francis, another crucial facet of this AIAD is that the cadets meet U.S. Embassy personnel in-country, which exposes these future leaders to soldier-statesmen and their mission abroad. Cadets who attended TherMilAk in the fall of 2010 met with William Eacho, U.S. Ambassador to Austria, who feels that this AIAD will help further the U.S.-Austria relationship. “Due to a decreasing Austrian defense budget and higher U.S. military priorities, the interactions between West Point and the Theresian Military Academy are the most robust military-to-military program we have,” Eacho says. He also believes that this cultural immersion opportunity will greatly affect the cadets in their future Army profession. He says, “As the U.S. moves toward an increased reliance on coalition-based military cooperation, getting these future leaders acquainted with operating in a multi-national environment will be extremely important for them as they continue with their own careers.” Spain nother new AIAD that emphasizes foreign cooperation is the “NATO Headquarters Internship,” which Major Shane Reeves ’96A of the Department of Law (D/Law) describes as “a behind-the- Alpine training in Austria curtain look into some very high-level strategic planning at a multinational operation.” In this program, two cadets spend three weeks at the Headquarters of the Allied Force Command (FCMD) in Madrid, Spain, which houses more than 400 military personnel from 20 NATO nations. For three weeks, the cadets work with 50 or so members of one of the two Deployable Joint Staff Elements, one of “Getting these future leaders acquainted which focuses heavily on NATO operations in Afghanistan. with operating in a multi-national environment According to Reeves, there are three overall goals to this AIAD. First, will be extremely important for them as they the program exposes cadets to various peace-keeping missions (even those in which the U.S. military is not participating). The most continue with their own careers.” recent effort in this area is Operation Unified Protector, which —U.S. Ambassador William Eacho protected civilian areas during last year’s fighting in Libya. Next, the program allows cadets to interact with officers and see the evaluation criteria used to assess the military capabilities of member nations (cadets are granted security clearance before departing), as well as the military capabilities of those countries wanting to join NATO. Photo: Seth Johnson ʼ12 WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 23 International Summer: Military Training Abroad NATO Headquarters of the Allied Force Command, Madrid, Spain Called Combat Readiness Evaluation, this department verifies the Union, Madrid affords the cadets the opportunity to experience a combat readiness of land forces designated for a NATO assignment variety of art, entertainment, cuisine, and history. in accordance with their readiness category. One such possible candidate-country is Mauritania in West Africa, which has been “Our AIAD, given that it is heavily focused training with NATO forces to protect the country against Al Qaeda insurgents. Finally, cadets will get to see international law in action, on military operations, is basically on-the- which Reeves notes can be a thorny matter in a multinational job training for the cadet with one goal in organization. “There are a host of issues on which the U.S. military mind—to help that cadet become a better has different views when it comes to international law,” he says. “From rules of engagement to conventions on land mines, we have officer in the future.” to learn how to manage these cooperative friction points in a way —MAJ Shane Reeves ’96 that makes these coalition efforts work.” Reeves maintains that Upon returning from their various foreign countries, AIAD cadets accomplishing even one of these AIAD goals would be a rare still have a couple of requirements to complete for the program, opportunity and an invaluable experience for a junior officer. depending upon the sponsoring department. D/Law, for example, But like the other international programs described above, there is a obliges its cadets to complete a substantive report (complete with secondary benefit to this AIAD. Even though the planning is done in length and style requisites) in which they discuss in detail their English, the cadets still encounter various languages and military AIAD experiences. They also need to deliver a presentation during cultures from all of NATO’s participants. This is vital, according to re-organization week that explains the value and benefit of this Reeves: “Anytime you take a cadet and give him or her some AIAD. While the cadets are expected to discuss this matter in length, international exposure, it helps that cadet in the larger perspective of Reeves sums ups the D/Law AIAD in one sentence: “Our AIAD, cultural awareness, which he or she will definitely need as a given that it is heavily focused on military operations, is basically on- lieutenant.” The city hosting this AIAD certainly contributes to its the-job training for the cadet with one goal in mind—to help that cultural immersion impact. As the third-largest city in the European cadet become a better officer in the future.” 24 WestPointAOG.org West Point’s Golden Lesson to the Class of 2013 By Keith J. Hamel, WPAOG staff EST POIN W T At West Point, cadets learn lessons in various ways. any of us could look at these rings and not see them on the hand When the members of the Class of 2013 receive their of a person we love. Seeing it, holding it, it’s like having a piece of A S S S E O T C A class rings in late August of this year, they need only him still.” I U AT D IO RA N OF G to look at the gold on their fingers to be reminded of one the Academy’s greatest lessons: Duty, Honor, Country. This “To me, the Ring Melt ceremony is a tangible reminder gold, donated through the 12th Annual West Point Memorial Class that the ideals associated with ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ Ring Melt, seeks to impart this lesson through the life experiences of graduates who donned their class rings years prior. form a concept that is passed on from generation Since 2001, the West Point Association of Graduates has operated to generation.” —Cadet Timothy Berry ’13 the Ring Memorial Program, receiving class rings from donors and The rings were melted in a 2,300-degree furnace, with shavings conducting the ring melt ceremony in Warwick, RI, in cooperation taken from a sample containing gold from all the past Ring Melt with the U.S. Corps of Cadets and the Pease & Curren Refinery. ceremonies, and the molten liquid was poured into a mold to form a In recent months, WPAOG’s Class Support Directorate has worked gold bar. This bar was then passed from representatives at the refinery to raise awareness of this tangible and symbolic connection within to Nadia King ’91, Director of Class Support at WPAOG. King then the Long Gray Line. As a result, this year WPAOG received 42 presented it to Cadet Timothy Berry ’13, Class President. Finally, donated rings, which were included in the gold that will forever join Berry handed the bar over to West Point’s generations. Jayne Roland of Balfour, the jewelry company charged with This year’s Ring Melt saw the largest number of rings donated since making the rings the Class of the program began. It contained rings from three general officers 2013 will soon receive. (Major General Harold Hayward ’44, Major General Robert Joyce ’53, and Brigadier General Thomas Buck ’62); rings that were worn Upon receiving the gold bar, in four wars (WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam), rings that Berry acknowledged the lesson belonged to graduates with generational connections to West Point that the Ring Melt implicitly (including that of Colonel Kenneth Eugene Webber Jr. ’48, whose tries to teach each year: “To granddaughter, Cadet Kandace Webber, is a member of the Class of me, the Ring Melt ceremony 2013), and rings from the 50-Year Affiliate Class of 1963 (Colonel is a tangible reminder that the Charles Kinsey Jr. ’63 and Lynne Patten ’63). ideals associated with ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ form a Cadet Stephanie Wangeman ’13, the Class Ring and Crest Chair, concept that is passed on from was touched: “Seeing these families who’ve really been influenced by generation to generation.” these grads and hearing what the grads have done as officers and at West Point emphasizes the morality and virtue we’re binding Now, upon receiving their rings, the members arl/WPAOG ourselves to for the rest of our lives.” of the Class of 2013 will become the teachers of this golden lesson. Karen Reuter, the daughter of Colonel Harrison Heiberg Jr. ’46, was also moved and addressed the room before placing her father’s Photos: Marissa C Photos: ring in the crucible: “It’s such an important occasion. I don’t think Scan this code for video or go to youtube.com/WPAOG WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 25 —Queen Elizabeth II Photo: Marissa Carl/WPAOG staff LEADER DEVELOPment Outside the ClassroomBy Kathryn Glisson, Guest Writer The leadership goal of the Directorate of Cadet Activities (DCA), which falls under the Commandant of Cadets, is summed up in four short words: “All for the Corps.” In addition to providing balance and enriching what cadets are otherwise exposed to in the areas of military, physical, and morals/ethics training, DCA plays a critical role in leader development at West Point. 28 WestPointAOG.org Leader Development Outside the Classroom “Clubs are essential to developing Leaders of Character as they develop cadets across all dimensions of the West Point Leader Development System,” says Lieutenant Colonel Todd Messitt ’87, Director of Cadet Activities. “More important, each club serves as a leadership laboratory where cadets lead their peers under the mentorship of an officer-in-charge, as they would in the Army.” Samuel Wharton ’12, who worked with firsties on the script, This summer, while doing Cadet Troop Leadership Training at Fort costumes, and scenery while directing the 100th Night Show, Jackson, he will be thinking about his pending affirmation to the understands this development well. “I emerged from the project profession of arms. “With this threshold approaching, I have been with a keen sense of how difficult peer leadership is,” Wharton looking back at my two years, and am surprised by what stands out as says. “You are in that leadership position to lead, not make or keep my most meaningful enterprise,” Noreen says. “It wasn’t the weeks of friends; in fact, you cannot do both.” He continues, “As a leader field training each summer, success in academic classes, or even the you will be required to make unpopular decisions, but you want intensity of a week and a half at air assault, but my recent leadership to be able to live with those decisions, so they had better be the role as co-director and co-producer of a cadet theatrical production.” right ones, and for the right reasons.” The clubs are supplemented by social programs that are also designed Geoffrey Hansen ’12, who served as this year’s battle captain for to provide meaningful experiences to cadet leadership development. the Scoutmasters Camporee at Lake Frederick, understands these The Cadet Hostess’ Office, for example, which has been in place sentiments. “With nearly 6,000 participants, there was a constant since 1931, offers etiquette training to teach cadets how to present flow of leadership challenges, ranging from coordinating medical themselves with the poise and confidence befitting a future officer. transport for several minor hospitalizations to coordinating airspace Next, the Office of Cadet Programs, among other things, provides for two UH-60s, all the while working to keep the senior leadership social and recreational activities for cadet summer training and runs informed,” says Hansen, who was a member of DCA’s Scoutmasters transportation for service projects such as Big Brothers/Big Sisters Council for four years. and the “Tunnel to Towers Benefit Run” in New York City. Lastly, DCA’s home building, Eisenhower Hall, is the cultural center of the Cadets value the leadership Academy (welcoming new cadets on R-Day, offering performances opportunities each DCA activity by the West Point Band, and hosting developmental forums such as offers. Cadet Peter Noreen ’14 the Diversity Leadership Conference). emphasizes the positive correlation between passion and All together, these opportunities are vital pieces of the cadet leader success as a leader. development puzzle. Every DCA activity has a group of cadet leaders In April, Noreen and the who are acting as team captains, club presidents, and mentors for Theatre Arts Guild younger cadets who are trying to find their niche and an outlet for produced the Pulitzer their passion. “You can tangibly observe cadets develop throughout Prize-winning play the semester as they practice their leadership style, all the while “You Can’t Take mentoring younger cadets,” says Deputy Commandant Colonel It With You” on Jeff Lieb. the Eisenhower William Boice ’88, one of many graduates who provide A C Hall stage. support for DCA via donations through WPAOG, knows that the return on investment for these activities is huge for the ourtesy of D development of a cadet. “As a former grad, TAC officer, and now as a cadet parent, I deeply appreciate the variety of DCA programs and opportunities for cadets to explore their Photos: C passions in endeavors that aren’t always considered mainstream,” he says, adding that these activities provide another important layer of leadership development to the overall cadet experience. Kathryn Glisson is Deputy Director of West Point’s Directorate of Cadet Activities. WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 29 Army Boxing: NEVER QUIT By Ray Barone, Guest Writer When Army boxers pass each other on campus they bump fists and say “Never Quit,” which they believe is the most important thing to remember in the ring and in life. “It’s more important than remembering to keep your hands up or to bring your hands back fast,” says Team Co-Captain Ryan Johnson ’12. “If you refuse to lose, you’ll figure the rest of that out.” his season proved to be challenging both in and out of the ring not always going to receive the results you want, but what’s really Tfor the team, which won four straight national championships important is what you did to get there, the way you performed, and from 2008 to 2011. In March, as the boxers were on their way to the the way you carried yourself.” Regional Boxing Tournament at Pennsylvania State University, a The team’s journey started back in October with an inaugural reckless driver cut off one of the vans. All nine cadets in the vehicle retreat to Camp Buckner. The weekend was packed with workouts, were hurt; injuries included concussions and broken bones. The including bear crawls in the rain up the ski slope and a full mile accident could have been more severe had it not been for the driver of forward lunges, interspersed with motivational talks by training required by the Directorate of Cadet Activities (DCA) and Academy leadership. the safety features of the DCA-provided vehicle. This is also where the team decided to dedicate their season to At 4am, the team had a meeting to decide if they should continue Frank Reasoner ’62, who was an Army wrestler, baseball player, on to Penn State for the competition that was now only hours away boxer, and Medal of Honor recipient. Earlier in the year, after or to throw in the towel. The team decided that Army had to meeting a couple of “old grads” who couldn’t stop talking about the fight… they had to do it for those they were leaving behind in the well-rounded athlete, Johnson and Co-Captain Zoar Morales ’12 hospital. The uninjured boxers got back in the vans, arrived at did some research on Reasoner, who was killed in action in 6:30am, weighed in at 7am, took naps, then gave everything they Vietnam in 1965. It was fitting to dedicate the season to Reasoner, had in the ring that afternoon. Morales says, because he was a member of the firsties’ 50-Year A couple weeks later, the team placed third at nationals, but not one Affiliation Class and he also exemplified the Class of 2012’s motto: athlete was disappointed. “This year’s competition was a testament For More Than Ourselves. “Getting in the ring is not about being a to Army boxing,” Johnson says. “The thing you learn is that you’re stud and knocking out the other guy to get glory for yourself,” Photos: Tommy Gilligan/USMA PAO, Eric Bartelt/USMA PAO 30 WestPointAOG.org Army Boxing: Never Quit Morales says. “It’s about bringing glory to all those around you Volunteer Head Coach Ray Barone makes it a point to prepare his who make it possible for you to get in there.” athletes for their long-term goal. Morales remembers a lesson he learned while waiting to board a flight in the Denver airport earlier This year the team initiated a tradition of passing down an oral this year. Barone asked if he had confirmed transportation from the history of Army boxing, to make sure their stories live on for airport upon their arrival. It hadn’t occurred to Morales that he generations. Reasoner’s story will now be added to that history should call ahead to make sure the vehicles were there on time, but so that all future boxers know who he was as a cadet, as an athlete, Barone, who served more than 20 years in the Army, taught him and as a soldier. After practice, on their way out of the gym, that he needed to focus on such details when he becomes a many of the boxers will tap the plaque bearing Reasoner’s lieutenant. “He gives us reminders to be thinking ahead, to break likeness, which hangs in the Class of 1962 room. “It gives you a out of the cadet mentality of just focusing on what you have to get sense of being part of something much, much greater than just done, and to think about what your soldiers need,” Morales says. this team here,” says Cadet Langston Clarke ’13, who will be captain next year. The team’s core values teach the boxers from day one to be disciplined, loyal, courageous, and committed. It’s a philosophy In conjunction with the Admissions Office, the team also goes on known as T3, meaning they are part of three teams that all help outreach trips—this year to Chicago and Detroit; next fall to them to develop as leaders: the Corps of Cadets, their company Philadelphia. On Friday night the athletes box local fighters. teams, and the boxing team. “Boxing forced me to push myself Then they spend Saturday with inner-city youths, teaching them really hard,” Morales says. “I not only grew as an athlete, but as the basics of the sport and talking to them about the Academy. a person.” “There’s a lot of diversity on our team and many of us grew up in similar neighborhoods,” Morales says. “They just need someone to push them, like many of us had someone who saw that we had Ray “Coach” Barone is a retired Lieutenant Colonel who served for 21 the potential to be great.” years as a combat arms officer. He has been director of boxing at the United States Military Academy since 1999. Since 2007, he has been Upon graduation, Army boxers are physically and mentally ready head coach of the West Point Boxing Team. to lead soldiers. Johnson, who won the “Coach K” Award for Excellence in Teaching Character Through Sport for the Competitive Club category, says that his experiences as a boxer and as a team captain prepared him for life as an officer. Not long before he graduated, Johnson got some advice from Terrell Anthony ’11, who was serving as a platoon leader at Fort Gordon, Georgia. Anthony told him that he treats his platoon the same way he treated the boxing team when he was captain— mission first, and make sure your soldiers have what they need to be successful. “I think this experience is going to pay dividends,” Johnson says. “It’s my favorite part of the day, every day, though I might give you a different answer early in the morning.” –Cadet Langston Clarke ’13 CDT Kevin Jones ’13, with Head Coach Ray Barone, won by split decision over CDT Gavin Chapman Scan this code for video or go to youtube.com/WPAOG ’14 during the 132-pound bout of the 56th annual West Point Boxing Brigade Open at Crest Hall. Photo: John Pellino/USMA John Photo: WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 31 Army Fencing: Making a Point of Success By Robert Grieser, Guest Writer The West Point Fencing Team is one of the strongest contenders on the collegiate stage, earning several national championships and multiple conference titles in the past 15 years, and their 2011-12 season has been one of the best in Academy history. This is remarkable considering some of the alumni who once held a sword for the team: General George Patton, Class of 1909, General Dwight Eisenhower, Class of 1915, and Lieutenant General David Huntoon Jr. ’73, the current Superintendent of West Point. combative sport in three major weapon categories— Significance.” Nowhere is this more evident than with A épée, sabre, and foil—fencing is one of the top the fencing team. The team’s success this season began Directorate of Cadet Activities (DCA) competitive teams. at the South Atlantic Conference Championships, The épée squad, led by Team Captain Alex Pagoulatos ’12, where it took home first place for the men and women, won the Mid-Atlantic Conference (MAC) Championship in addition to the six-weapon overall team championship. this year—only the third time in West Point history this has Both the women’s épée team, led by Cadet Alexandria happened (after the squad won back-to-back championships Rodgers ’14, and the men’s sabre squad, led by Dan épée in 2000 and 2001). Winning the MAC Championship was Koszalka ’12, took home conference championship titles a career highlight for Pagoulatos, who not only served as the as well—the first time either of these weapon squads has team captain in 2011-12 but also as the team’s assistant won a conference championship. coach, working daily with head coach Robert Grieser on team training requirements at practice. “Fencing is something we can express ourselves “The power, the strength, and the leadership of this year’s through, which is not the case with everything team was in the hands of Cadet Pagoulatos; he and I set the else we do.” –Alex Pagoulatos ’12 team culture,” says Grieser. “With our record this year, this sabre culture is not the exception but will be the standard for Judd also stepped up to win first place in the individual subsequent seasons.” women’s épée, becoming West Point’s first conference champion in that weapon category. “Every late night, every Pagoulatos, though he shies away from taking credit, did a bruise, every pain, every ice, every time I had to go to the phenomenal job setting the team up for continued success trainers because I had broken myself…it was all worth it,” in the future. Cadet EJ Judd ’15, who has her own winning she says, remembering how she choked on a carrot she was career ahead of her, says Pagoulatos is “the most physically eating when she heard her named announced. “It just felt fit, smartest person that I’ve ever met in my life.” Amid great, especially to do it as a plebe.” Judd then went on to numerous other non-athletic accolades, Pagoulatos won become the first West Point woman to qualify for the U.S. this year’s John J. Pershing Writing Award (coordinated Fencing Association’s (USFA)National Championships. foil through WPAOG), which challenges cadets to reflect on General Pershing’s famous “Opinion.” Now a second West Point has also qualified for the National Collegiate Red areas lieutenant, Pagoulatos says fencing helped prepare him for Fencing Championships every year and both the six-weapon indicate where the fencers can the Army. “You might lose a tough match, but you have to and men’s teams garnered a second place win this year. be hit. pick yourself up and forget about it, or at least learn from it Additionally, the men’s épée squad had its best finish ever, and move forward,” he says. “That’s the big lesson to take also taking home silver. To top it off, West Point beat both from fencing.” Navy and the Marines to earn the Military Cup. Fencing is the only West Point team that hasn’t lost to Navy in 15 years! The team’s leadership cadre borrows its coaching philosophy from Dr. Ralph Pim, the Director of Competitive Teams for In addition to collegiate dual meets, participation in three the Department of Physical Education, who seeks to develop national conferences, and collegiate national championships, “Warrior Athletes of Character” by creating “Teams of this season saw several cadets compete in North America 32 WestPointAOG.org Army Fencing: Making a Point of Success Army Fencing: Making a Point of Success Cups, several regional and national qualifiers, as well as witnessed the first Academy cadet qualify and compete in the USFA Junior Olympics since 2005. “We have the distinction and respect of being one of the only club-level fencing teams in the country that is invited to varsity-sponsored competitions and varsity-level conference championships,” Grieser says. “Our opponents view us as equals on the NCAA level, probably because we have not had a losing season in the past 15 years.” Because fencing is an individual sport, leadership takes precedence as each cadet is responsible for his or her own drive to excel in training and competition. “When you’re on the strip alone, it does come down to you to win that individual bout,” says Koszalka, adding that it requires mental toughness to keep a level head, which builds self confidence. Many of the team’s athletes gravitated to the sport because they knew someone on the team or immediately clicked with the group. Cadet Darcy Parks ’14, who had never fenced before West Point and went on to compete in the National Collegiate Fencing Championships plebe year, says the members of the team all consider it a second family. With more team medals and trophies to even mention, Koszalka says his favorite memories from the past arl/WPAOG staff, courtesy of the FencingTeam four years involve the long bus rides to out-of-state competitions. “The awards come with the hard work, and it’s nice to be recognized for what we do,” he says, “but at the end of the day it’s the people and not the recognition.” Robert Grieser has been the head coach of the fencing team for 15 years and is also this year’s winner of the “Coach K” Award for Excellence in Teaching Character Through Sport Award in the Competitive Club Athletics category. Photos: Mike Strasser/USMA PAO, Marissa C WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 33 Section : Title 1 OBSTACLE COURSE 2 ROPE BRIDGE Sandhurst Competition 2012 Photos: [NamesMarissa listedCarl/WPAOG here as needed] staff, DMI Section : Title ROPE BRIDGE 3 RAPPEL 7 BOAT SITE tarted in 1967, the Sandhurst Competition, which THE CHALLENGES | COMPANY WINNER* was held on April 20 and 21 at West Point, provides S 1. Obstacle Course: Negotiate a series of obstacles while moving the Corps of Cadets with a challenging regimental skills as quickly as possible | C-4 competition to enhance professional development and military excellence. Fifty-five teams coming from U.S. 2. Rope Bridge: Improvise a bridge utilizing team equipment to cross a water obstacle | G-2 service academies, ROTC programs across the country, and military academies all over the world competed in 3. Rappel: Construct Swiss seats and rappel all team equipment this year’s competition, with RMC Duntroon (Australia) and personnel down a 75-foot drop using correct words of taking the first place trophy. Company C-3 earned top command | Tied among E-2, C-3, H-3 & G-4 USCC team honors, while the Fourth Regiment won the 4. First Aid: Perform triage and casualty extraction after Sandhurst Trophy, which is given to the highest placed encountering a scenario with multiple casualties | H-2 USCC regiment based on the aggregate time of all the 5. Weapons: Assemble different weapons systems and negotiate companies in that regiment. In addition to the events a grenade-throwing lane | Tied between B-1 & D-4 pictured, teams competed in land navigation, first aid, 6. IED: Patrol and encounter an IED scenario, which tests the mind and weapons/grenades. | No results posted 7. Boat Site: Maneuver a boat around a pre-determined course, breach a metal door, and tandem saw through timber | H-1 8. DMI Challenge: Haul a howitzer across a field and answer a series of questions concerning the overall competition | I-4 9. Marksmanship: Defend the position against “enemy” personnel | E-3 10. Land Navigation: Negotiate a demanding course | C-2 Scan this code for video or go to youtube.com/WPAOG *Locations on map at left are approximate. 8 DMI CHALLENGE 9 marksmanship Photos: [NamesMarissa listedCarl/WPAOG here as needed] staff WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 35 ’52 Lecture Series Launches to Standing-Room Only ’52 Lecture Series Launches to Standing-Room Only By Keith J. Hamel, WPAOG staff he Department of Social Sciences (D/SOCSCI) welcomed Dr. also surprised by the Corps turn out. “We rarely have standing-room- THenry Kissinger, the 56th U.S. Secretary of State, to West Point only lectures,” he said. “We probably had 500 or so cadets here who on April 5, 2012, to deliver the inaugural keynote address of the Class could have opted for sleeping instead.” of ’52 Distinguished Lecture Series. Robinson Auditorium was Kissinger discussed his time as a private with the 84th Infantry packed to capacity as Colonel Mike Meese ’81, Department Head, Division during WWII, differences in military strategy between the opened the ceremony by saying, “The Class of ’52 Speakers United States and China (“for the Chinese, strategy is a process; for Endowment ensures that we can always bring exceptional policy us, it is a series of episodes”), and the current war in Afghanistan makers, military leaders, academic scholars, business experts, and (“objectives in Afghanistan are unsustainable in a time frame that the others to West Point to enrich cadets’ intellectual development and American public will support”). truly connect the theory that we teach in the classroom with practice.” After his talk, cadets huddled around Kissinger to ask more questions. Both cadets and Class of ’52 grads admitted that SOCSCI set the bar Cadet Nick Rodriguez ’15 asked him what the most difficult obstacle extremely high with Kissinger as the first speaker (qualifying for three was that he had to overcome as a diplomat: “Understand each nation’s of the four categories listed above). “I can’t think of anybody in our identity, its history, and its culture before engaging in diplomacy.” country who is more qualified to kick off this series than Dr. Kissinger, displaying his well-known wit, remarked, “I’m going to give Kissinger,” said Colonel (Retired) Donald R. Swygert ’52. Hannah arl/WPAOG staff a lecture at Harvard next week, and I think I’m safe in predicting that Smith ’12 described the event as “phenomenal: this is the first time I will not be greeted with the same unanimity that I was here.” cadets filled in from the front without having to be told.” Meese was Photo: Marissa C 36 WestPointAOG.org AUSA WANTS TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD America’s Soldiers are ahead of the other team in foreign lands. Here at home, the Association of the U.S. Army is getting fi rst downs on Capitol Hill to ensure that Soldiers and their families are taken care of. In order for AUSA to go over the goal line, however, we need your support. Visit us on our web site or call us. You can make a difference. 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Abaya ’71 The Distinguished Graduate Award is given to graduates of the United States Military Academy whose character, distinguished service, and stature draw wholesome comparison to the qualities that West Point strives for, in keeping with its motto: “Duty, Honor, Country.” 2012 The Long Gray Line welcomes the Class of 2012! General Officer Promotions (Since March 20, 2012) Gorsky named CEO of The Secretary of Defense has announced that the President has 1982 nominated: Johnson & Johnson To the rank of Lieutenant General: Major General Robert B. Brown ’81 Alex Gorsky was named the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of To the rank of Brigadier General: Johnson & Johnson effective April Colonel Kristin K. French ’86 26, 2012. Before becoming CEO, The following Army National Guard Officers have been confirmed Gorsky served as Vice Chairman by the Senate for Federal recognition in the next higher grade: of the company’s Executive To the rank of Major General: Committee with responsibility for Brigadier General Daniel L. York ’81 the Medical Devices & Diagnostics Group, Global Supply Chain, To the rank of Brigadier General: Health Care Compliance & Colonel Lewis G. Irwin ’86 Privacy and Government Affairs & Policy. Gorsky began his Colonel David C. Wood ’85 arl/WPAOG, Tommy Gilligan/ USMAPAO Johnson & Johnson career in 1988 as a sales representative. On page 47 of the spring issue, it states that LTC Frederick Van Deusen was in the West Point Class of 1952. Van Deusen was a member of the Class of 1953. Photos: Marissa C 38 WestPointAOG.org Thank you for your service. For career opportunities visit: www.amazon.com/military Contact us at [email protected] WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 39 by the numbers WEST POINT MUSEUM BY THE NUMBERS Number of Date when Cannons on the Museum Trophy Point first opened to the public 1854 88days the museum 124,709 is open Number of visitors to each year cost of 362 $ the Museum in 2011 USMA Class of admission MG George Olmsted after whom the 0 3,000 building is named. Number of (Olmsted Hall) artifacts on exhibit in the 1922 Museum Number of artifacts Facility in the collection 65,000 11 fourteen Portraits in Number of staff collection by arl/WPAOG staff at the Museum Thomas Sully Photos: Marissa C 40 WestPointAOG.org by the numbers Number of schoolchildren Number of who attended Atomic Bombs programs on display in 2011 5,510 Number of pistols owned by George Washington in the collection Number of artifacts donated in 2011 282 Number of locations the Museum has occupied at West Number of 71,590 Facebook fans Point during the Total square footage of past 158 years. (May 2012) Olmsted Hall four Year when congressional act directs that captured flags and trophies be “preserved and displayed” at West Point 1854 acres of historic Number of Historic Sites operated trails on arl/WPAOG staff (Fort Putnam & Constitution Constitution Island) Island 282 Photos: Marissa C WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 41 Small Unit Tactics Team Different Name, but the “Strong” Remains the Same By Keith J. Hamel, WPAOG staff uring the fall of 2010, the Infantry Tactics Club, which had ’01, the club’s officer-in-charge, the team’s organization is Dbeen around since the early 1980s, and the Calvary Scout deliberately designed to expose cadets to how a platoon would Club, which was originally called the Combined Arms Tactics work with a company or battalion. “The team leaders do work as Club, merged to form the Maneuver Tactics Club in an attempt logistic officers and they are responsible for organizing and to mirror the Army’s formation of the Maneuver Center of executing training plans,” he says. These training plans run from Excellence at Fort Benning (which combined Infantry and Armor hour-long weekly meetings in Thayer Hall to advanced weekend in 2005 to better represent Army units in combat). This year, the or week-long field exercises at one of the ranges or at an off-site Maneuver Tactics Club decided again to change their name to the military installation. (In order to participate in any field exercise or Small Unit Tactics Team (SUTT) to better match their mission, trip, a club member needs to have attended the weekly training). which is, “To train and inspire select members of the Corps of Such responsibility helps facilitate the leadership skills that West Cadets and enhance their skills in small unit tactics and troop Point is trying to instill in all its cadets. leading procedures, so that each graduating member is better prepared for a lifetime of service to the Nation as an officer in the “I think [SUTT] is the best experience in terms United States Army.” Indeed, no matter by which name they are of military development. Instead of only having known, this Department of Military Instruction club is dedicated to producing strong leaders for today’s Army. summers to practice being a leader, I practice SUTT claims an active foundation of 20 to 23 cadets. The club’s being a leader every Tuesday and most weekends.” organization tries to replicate that of an Army platoon with cows –Cadet Matthew Berman ’13 and firsties serving as officers and yearlings and plebes acting as staff sergeants and privates. According to Major Dallas Cheatham In the spring of 2011, twenty-two SUTT members visited the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, and broadened their knowledge of mechanized infantry tactics. While there, the cadets fired the MG-74 (Austrian machine gun), trained with the 35th Panzer Grenadier Battalion (conducting an assault on a destroyed building complex), and participated in scenario- based, peace and stability operations. In the fall of 2011, the club trained with soldiers from Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha and received instruction on a variety of weapons systems and learned how to radio for fire and medical evacuations. Just this spring, the club traveled to Fort Bragg, NC, to train with PEO Soldier’s Advanced New Equipment Training Team, where the cadets learned about and operated the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle and newly-designed Lightweight Thermal Weapon Sight. Each year, SUTT conducts a culminating exercise based on that year’s training goal. This year’s goal was urban operations or MOUT (Military Operations on Urban Terrain), and the team conducted a raid exercise over three days at three different ranges in April. According to Cheatham, this terminal exercise is meant to replicate a Calvary unit’s “Stetson Ride,” a tradition during which a soldier receives spurs after passing tests that demonstrate leadership. In this case, the soldiers are the team’s yearling members, who are responsible for planning and executing the Photo: Small Unit Tactics Team 42 WestPointAOG.org Small Unit Tactics Team: Different Name, but the “Strong” Remains the Same exercise, thus beginning their transition into positions of maintenance, and accountability—typically only discussed leadership within the club. During the MOUT field exercise, in the classroom or experienced by those in senior cadet the cadets worked on the searching and handling of enemy leadership positions. prisoners, using radio communications, night vision goggles, Whatever the case, it is clear that no matter what it calls itself, and integrated aiming lasers. this club continues to be a unique opportunity where cadets can Berman views SUTT’s mission as tied to that of West Point, put theory into practice, develop their leadership abilities, and which is to produce combat leaders. “There are between 4,500 build their individual skills; ultimately preparing them to be and 4,700 cadets at the Academy, and even though we are only Army Strong in whatever capacity they are needed. about 20 members, when we go out to conduct summer training, we are able to instruct other cadets, given that we have a bit more expertise in certain military skills,” Berman says. “So even though I might only see 20 cadets, if those 20 cadets go off to Camp Buckner and are inserted into separate squads of eight to ten, then our lessons start spreading out and a huge population at West Point is affected.” Cheatham also sees SUTT as complementing the training every West Point cadet receives in platoon-level operations. “They get tactical lessons in depth as well as breadth,” he says. “When you’re pushing a few thousand kids through summer training, they might spend a few hours on the range, but these cadets will get a chance to spend a whole day on the range just working these tasks.” In fact, SUTT may go beyond the Academy’s training program in that it emphasizes areas of officership—such as training management, risk management, +(5))-21(6,QF 81,7('67$7(60,/,7$5<$&$'(0< %$&.'$7('5,1*6 -(:(/5< ,I\RXGLGQ¶WSXUFKDVHD0LQLDWXUHULQJ RU&ODVV-HZHOU\IRUJUDGXDWLRQ RULI\RXUFODVVULQJKDVEHHQORVWRUGDPDJHG RULI\RX¶UHORRNLQJIRUDVSHFLDOJLIW +(5))-21(6FDQSURYLGH\RXZLWKDQHZULQJ DQGFODVVMHZHOU\IRUWKHIROORZLQJJUDGXDWLRQFODVVHV &/$665,1*6 0DOH5LQJ &/$66-(:(/5< )HPDOH5LQJ 3HQGDQWV7LH7DFV 0LQLDWXUH5LQJ 5LQJ%DVH&KDUPV :HGGLQJ%DQGV &XII/LQNV &RQWDFW'RQ6ZDQVRQ H[W GMVZDQVRQ#KHUIIMRQHVFRP Photo: Small Unit Tactics Team WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 43 Section : Title Parachute Team DMI’s “In Extremis” Sports Team By Keith J. Hamel, WPAOG staff f you have ever visited the Department of Military Instruction’s candidates to about ten finalists (the team will begin the 2012-13 I(DMI) Cadet Clubs web page, you may have found yourself academic year with 31 members). Next, members commit to wondering: “Why is the Parachute Team here?” While parachuting training six days a week for about three hours per day with Coach is a major component of the Army, many people view the West Tom Falzone, a world-record holder and champion skydiver. Point Parachute Team as more minstrelsy than military; more Finally, by the time they graduate, firstie members of the team will demonstration than defense. After all, aren’t they the ones who have over 500 jumps, which is more than most airborne soldiers jump into Michie Stadium with the football on home game have in their careers. Saturdays in the fall? It is also possible to view the Parachute Team’s training as in- At first glance, it is hard to equate the Parachute Team with the other between extremes. According to Uthlaut, there are two types of DMI clubs, but when you consider the words of Major David jumps for which soldiers train: static line jumping and freefall Uthlaut ’01, the team’s officer-in-charge, the relationship makes jumping. Static line jumping occurs at a low-level altitude (around perfect sense. He says, “The Parachute Team is one of the few clubs 1,200 feet) using a round parachute that is pulled for the jumper and at West Point, beyond those training with live ammunition, that causes him or her to float straight down with little operational trains ‘in extremis:’ they are working with life and death up there.” control. Military freefall, on the other hand, is done at a much higher altitude (15,000-35,000 feet), which requires the jumper to Adapting and softening the Latin to the homonymic phrase “in the employ oxygen, and it uses a larger canopy parachute, which allows extreme” describes this team and its members perfectly. Everything for navigation in the air thus making freefall a more tactical jump. about them is intense. First, members must go through a rigorous Sport parachuting, which is what the West Point team practices, three-week, three-stage tryout that whittles down the 100 or so falls between these two military extremes. Sometimes called “Hollywood jumping,” sport parachuting is done between 3,000 and 13,000 feet using accuracy canopies that allow for greater control of the jump, but it is not tactical in focus and does not require oxygen. The team practices these jumps, often with military parachuting regiments (such as the 101st Airborne, the Special Ops Command “Black Daggers,” and the French Foreign Legion) in order to improve flying abilities for formation work and precision accuracy in landing, and their practice regularly pays off. The team took home 12 medals at the most recent National Collegiate Parachuting Championship, including a gold medal for Cadet Kurt Yeager ’13, who set a United States Parachuting Association record for overall performance in classic accuracy. West Point Parachute Team members are constantly learning skills during their training and competition events that will be applicable to their military careers. Uthlaut notes 17 such skills, including composite risk management, accountability of and confidence in equipment, logistics training, and interaction with noncommissioned officers. For Team Captain Cadet Ben Garlick ’13, the most important lessons learned have been leadership and camaraderie. “This has definitely been the most important leadership experience I’ve had since I’ve been at West Point,” says Garlick. He also believes that being a member of the Parachute Team has cemented his identity in the Corps. Indeed, the Parachute Team is a tightly-knit group that never forgets its members. continued on page 46 Photos: Parachute Team Parachute Photos: 44 WestPointAOG.org Official Supplier of United States Military Academy for the Following classes 1943 1961 1982 1944 1962 1984 1945 1963 1985 1946 1964 1986 1947 1965 1988 1948 1966 1999 1950 1968 2003 1951 1969 2004 1952 1970 1953 1971 2005 1954 1975 2006 1955 1976 2010 1956 1977 2011 1958 1979 2012 1960 1981 2013 Balfour can replace Class Rings, miniatures, and wedding bands for the above listed back dated classes. Contact Jayne Roland at Balfour. Phone: 201-262-8800 or Email: [email protected] ©Balfour 1970–2011, all rights reserved. 17471 0911 WEST POINT | SUMMER 2012 45 Parachute Team: DMI’s “In Extremis” Sports Team It proudly displays memorial plaques of its fallen members: John Ryan Dennison ’04, Phillip Neel ’05, and Nick Dewhirst ’06. So, while many people see them as strictly affiliated with the Department of Physical Education as a competitive club and mainly a strategic draw for fans at football games, the West Point Parachute Team is quite at home in DMI as well. Along with Falzone and Uthlaut, DMI’s Master Sergeant Felix Serra and Sergeant Sean O’Toole are training these cadets to be future Army leaders. Garlick, who will be jumping into Michie Stadium in the fall, agrees. “I’m not really a big fan of heights, and I used to be freaked-out when they opened the door and I saw people sucked out of the plane,” he says, “but I’ve gained confidence from being in these risky situations—being a member of the parachute team is the closest thing I can get to leadership ‘in extremis’ at West Point without actually being a platoon leader.” Memorial Articles are now online! And you can access them on the same page as Be Thou At Peace at WestPointAOG.org Because Memorial Articles are now online, you can read them as soon as they’ve been finalized, rather than waiting for TAPS magazine to be published. Even better…now, you can leave your own testimonial on the same page where the Memorial Article is posted. Testimonials will be preserved in the graduate’s Cullum File in perpetuity. Note: This process is available for Memorial Articles submitted after April, 2011. 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